Chapter 143: New Year's Gift

Although she went to Dingfu as a slave when she was a child, every time she went home, she was full of scenery, and everyone in the family and even the entire Maoshan Village did not envy her.

No one has dared to put her in the face yet.

Xue Yao's hand pulled at the slippery silk, and the tighter she clenched, the ten onion-like nails turned white, and it seemed that they were about to break.

It was only a moment, and he returned to normal, as if he had not heard Xuewa's words. Chao Xuejiao beckoned, bent her eyebrows and smiled: "Please Sister Xuejiao pour me another bowl of noodle tea, the noodle tea fried by the eldest aunt is burnt and delicious, it is delicious, I drank a bowl just now and want to drink a second bowl." โ€

Xue Jiao got down from the kang and put on her embroidered shoes, drank the remaining half bowl of noodle tea with Xue Yao, added two large spoons, refilled it with water, stirred it with a spoon and handed it to Xue Yao, Xue Yao took it with a trembling hand, and drank it all in one go.

Immediately resumed talking and laughing, a sharp and clever melon seed face, not at all able to see the gaffe just now, raised his hand to brush the broken hair hanging down in front of his forehead, and the two pearl earrings hanging from his ears swayed and reflected the pearl light, falling on the collarbone that exposed the neckline, swinging one after another, lining the skin like jade, and the eyebrows were picturesque.

&nใ€‹ใ€‹Novel.; Chen Xuejiao was impressed by her, and she would not suffer a loss when she arrived at Ding Mansion in this city. I'm afraid that she will use this city government to help the second room bully the big house.

Jing Hao, Xue Ru, and Huang Dragonfly all pretended not to hear Xue Wa's words, shook off the silk satin, smoothed out the wrinkled marks held by Xue Yao, and discussed what silk thread should be used to match what silk and so on.

Huang Dragonfly was still thinking about Chen Qilin, knowing that Xue Yao was Qi Lin's sister, and quietly glanced at her, the eyes of the two brothers and sisters were the same, with long Danfeng eyes, slightly raised, sparkling. It's just that such a good appearance actually went to Dingfu to be a concubine. Dragonfly only thought that Xue Yao was pitiful, otherwise how could an innocent girl have a reason to be a concubine, and she couldn't help but feel sympathy in her heart.

Everyone in the upper room heard Xuewa's words, and Zhao gritted his teeth angrily.

Mrs. Chen's eyebrows were gloomy, and she looked out through the window to Xuewa: "Vicious girl, your clothes are worth a few dollars." If it's dirty, it's dirty, who will you see if it's dead or alive? "I'm talking nonsense, see if I don't let your father break your legs." โ€

Xuewa's clothes were dirty, and she was already hiding grievances in her heart, but she was frightened by Mrs. Chen, and tears fell down in strings.

Cai Shi saw that Mrs. Chen was angry, and stood in the snow with a big belly to make up: "Xuewa is young, what do you know?" I finally got a new dress for the New Year. Suddenly it was dirty, and I was distressed, and I didn't know anything else and said something I shouldn't say. โ€

Cai's words were hidden in the needle, and the stabbing Zhao family's heart hurt, and he couldn't attack, so he angrily went into the room and grabbed Xue Miao and beat him a few times, and the whole courtyard spread Xue Miao's crying.

Xuewa stood in the snow to wash her jacket, her hands as red as carrots. Rub it and choke it out. Li couldn't look at it, and boiled a basin of hot water from the pot house. I took the alkaline noodles and helped clean them.

Li Shi hung the washed red cotton jacket on the clothesline, looked up at the sky, it was already half of the morning, and his brother had not yet arrived home, I was afraid that the snow was slippery. Hindered the trip.

Xuewa stood under the padded jacket, wringing water drop by drop, her eyes were red.

Li comforted her: "The broken thread asked your cousin to re-embroider it for you, and you still don't believe in your cousin's craftsmanship." I'm afraid that the embroidery is better than the original. I will call your sister Xue Jiao out, take advantage of the good day at this time, and prick your ears and eyes, I have two pairs of earrings there, give you a pair. โ€

Xuewa stopped crying.

Xue Jiao stayed in the room for a while, impatiently listening to those embroidered words, and thought that she would wear her ears and eyes today and come out to find Li.

Li took a sharpened embroidery needle in his hand and scalded it three times with boiling water. Take a piece of ice from under the eaves, ice the ears of Xue Jiao and Xue Wa, and use soybeans to grind the earlobes on both sides unconscious.

Xue Jiao didn't pass through her ears and eyes in her previous life, she closed her eyes in fright, and she only heard the sound of a pinprick and didn't feel any pain.

It's just the blood on the bib, the bright red glare, and the pain of the piercing. Originally, the younger the girl, the better, but Mrs. Chen only cared about the children in the second room, and Mrs. Chen, who was born with Xue Jiao and Xue Wa, said that she was a girl, and Li and Cai forgot that this should have been tied at the time of the three baptisms, but it was only now tied.

After putting it on, Li stuffed it in his ears with tea leaves and told the two girls: "You can't scratch it with your hands, you can't get wet, and you can bring earrings when spring begins." โ€

Xuewa's eyes were full of pictures of wearing earrings and going out to go out in March, and she forgot the blood on her bib for a while.

Li went into the house to get the silver peanut earrings, and handed them to Xuewa in the courtyard, the carriage and horses at the gate of the yard roared, and then the closed door opened a crack, and from the crack I saw that my brother was coming.

Chen Xuejiao didn't care about the slippery road, jumped and opened the door, with a round face with joy, and shouted: "Uncle! โ€

Chen Qi'an and Chen Qiping both came out.

Li and Chen Xiucai greeted them in person.

Full of a cart of things, Li Yuntian did not shy away from people, got out of the carriage, and beckoned to move things to the yard, and passers-by sighed that Li had a good mother's family.

Half-chambered sheep, a pig's head, a fan of pork, four live fish, two pairs of hares, and two large bags of various fruits and dry goods from their own fields.

Li Yuntian and Li took the children of the big house to move into the house.

Mrs. Chen glanced out a few times through the door of the upper room, her mouth was pouting and she could hang an oil pot, and said to Zhao and Zhang sourly: "This is for the face of the head of the big house." โ€

Zhao and Zhang laughed at each other.

When the family was not separated, the Li family's mother's family gave the Chen family New Year's gifts every year, although it was not so rich, but it was still the richest of the four daughters-in-law's mother's family. Zhao's mother's family has always loved Zhao, and they only send half a fan of pork.

In previous years, the mother's family who relied on the big house did not need to buy meat dishes to have a good year, but it seems that this year will not work. Because of Chen Zichang's inaction, the Zhao family didn't even send meat this year, and Zhao's maiden family didn't jump a fart every year, Cai's father was a shrewd businessman, because his daughter didn't split up, he only sent three bottles of sesame oil.

Mrs. Chen saw the mutton, the chickens and ducks that were jumping around. Jealous eyes are red.

"My sister-in-law gave a very generous gift in return, and I saw her cleaning up in the morning, with chickens, fish, meat and eggs all over the ground." Zhao looked at Old Lady Chen's eyes and added.

Unexpectedly, this sentence did not please Mrs. Chen, but stepped on her tail, glanced at Zhao's yin and said: "Your annual gift to your mother's family is not richer than that of the big house." I didn't see how many things your mother gave us, it's a fan of pork every year, and this year I won't even give a piece of pork skin. โ€

With a "hum", he slammed the curtain and entered the inner room.

Dafang welcomed Li Yuntian into the room and sat and talked.

In previous years, New Year's gifts were given earlier than this year, and this year it was a little late.

It turned out that someone in the village got married, and Mr. Li had prestige in the village, and he couldn't leave him for red and white ceremonies, so he asked about it. I drank at night, and the next day I couldn't get up with a dizzy head and my legs were swollen.

invited Lang Zhong, saying that the food was greasy, plus drinking wine and eating meat, leading to qi deficiency and fat.

When Li heard this, tears were about to fall, and he was so anxious that he couldn't go to his parents' house to see his father.

Li Yuntian smiled and said, "It's okay anymore." After checking the pulse, he said that it was not a disease. It is because if you eat too much meat, oil and wine, you will avoid it, and you can't eat it in the future, and you can't eat it alone, and you should eat less sugar and salt. I'm afraid that you will be worried, so my father and mother will not let you reveal it. โ€

Old Man Li was a figure when he was young and respected in the village. Ordinary people often invite him to have a drink and talk about something. What's more, the Li family is wealthy, and the old man Li can't do without wine and meat for his daily meals, so he is afraid of scratching his heart and lungs when he breaks it now.

"Can Daddy keep his mouth shut?" Li Shi was slightly relieved when he heard that Old Man Li was okay, and pressed the corner of his eye with a handkerchief.

"Mother is watching it every day, your sister-in-law has let Nini pester her father every day. As long as Dad has something to do, he doesn't think about drinking wine and eating meat. Li Yuntian laughed, "Yesterday I wanted to clip that fat meat again, but I was knocked off by my mother's chopsticks, and others didn't listen to what they said, Da Zhuang said a word, you still have to watch your great-grandson marry a daughter-in-law, Dad listened to it and picked up a bowl of vegetables in front of him, and now several grandchildren are looking at him." โ€

Li Yuntian said again: "Lang Zhong said that when he waited for spring, he took off his thick clothes, his legs and feet were sharp, and he often went around the fields, his eyes were full of green, and it was good to evacuate." โ€

Li's eyebrows condensed, no matter how good her brother said, she was not relieved that she hadn't seen it with her own eyes.

Chen Xuejiao knew that Old Man Li's disease was high blood pressure in her previous life, this disease was very common in her previous life, she couldn't eat big fish and meat every day, as long as she ate lightly and exercised more, this kind of disease was very easy to control, and it was not a serious illness.

"Uncle, I seem to have read it in a book, like grandpa, eat light, avoid high sugar and high oil, soak your feet at night, and your healthy body will come back." Chen Xuejiao stuck a piece of fruit and ate it.

"It's this principle, as the saying goes, meat makes fire, fish produces phlegm, and tofu and cabbage keep safe." Chen Xiucai took over the conversation, "Don't worry, the eldest brother said so, it's okay to think about my father-in-law's illness, let's go see him on the second day of the new year." โ€

When Li heard this, his heart rolled into his stomach.

Seeing that it was noon, Li quickly got up and went to cook and entertain the eldest brother.

On the upper side of the room, Mrs. Chen sat on the kang and called Chen Zifu to give a New Year's gift to her little girl Wen Yan. In previous years, I would go to give New Year's gifts at this time, and the gifts of that year were pieced together by several daughters-in-law's mothers.

There are very few New Year's gifts in the house this year, Mrs. Chen's face is full of unhappiness, she feels sorry for Wen Yan again, gritted her teeth, and untied the mutton hanging on the beam of the house for the New Year, and gave Chen Zifu a string of money, asking him to buy some fruits and drinks from the town to send to Wen Yan.

Chen Zifu said, "I'm afraid it's not good to go at noon", and the dog who was scolded by Mrs. Chen was bloody, and he didn't dare to say anything anymore.

Mrs. Chen calculated that there were too few things, so she gritted her teeth and ran to the yard to catch two fat old hens with her own hands, and forced Zhao to take out two pieces of cloth.

Zhao hesitated slightly, and Mrs. Chen sank her face and said, "Xueyao embroiders the wedding dress, and the scissors saved are enough." โ€

Zhao gritted his teeth and said nothing, went into the house and twisted a piece of silk cloth that Xue Yao brought for her to make a spring shirt, and came out, Old Mrs. Chen was still too little.

Mrs. Chen wanted to add something to the big house to send to Wen Yan, but it was difficult to say why someone from Li's mother's family came. (To be continued......)